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Secret chats only. With their own, in-house encryption, that, if I remember correctly, the apps don't use according to the specifications.
Maybe I'm mixing up mtproto 1 and 2 with that second part, though.
AND only available on mobile.
AND 1-on-1 chats only, no e2ee for group chats available at all.
I don't mind in-house encryption (the Signal protocol didn't just appear out of nowhere either), however the latter part is worrying.
In any case, I personally don't trust Signal or Telegram.
What do you trust? It seems like something like Molly is the best for compatibility and security.
Molly still depends on Signal's centralized servers.
Best solution I know of currently is SimpleX, though Veilid (and VeilidChat by extension) also seem promising, though it might take a while for those to be usable.
From a cryptographic and usability perspective Signal still has a few benefits. However Simplex is promising.
The best is to not trust the centralized server of either of these platforms. Set up your own XMPP server & gives these the boot.
No thanks. XMPP is old and dead
XMPP is battle-tested* and thriving*
I don’t think you know how many commercial use cases are relying on XMPP, nor how much the community has been working on updates. Older technologies tend to have maturity is spec but also in implementations where the servers are robust & already at the point of optimization over chasing features. We see this with how little specs it takes to run a server & have Conversation forks on Android have some of the best battery life & data plan usage in the chat space. The network is massively decentralized too… unlike Matrix where almost everyone is on Matrix.org or a server provided/hosted by Matrix.org giving them all the metadata.
Molly is just Signal with a different name and on more depositories
And no proprietary software or dependencies
The Signal servers it connects to run proprietary or unauditable software, no?
All server side software is proprietary as you don't control it. With that being said having a centralized design isn't great but Signal is well known and pretty well proven.
There are other messagers but don't though Signal out so quickly.